it Commercial Cow (with its debatable new default color and GUI scheme)?
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one! The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least
The Lark, issue 1, 1895
Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"-
I'm sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you anyhow
I'll kill you if you quote it! Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue
The Lark, issue 24, 1897
I've never seen a purple cow.
My eyes with tears are full.
I've never seen a purple cow,
And I'm a purple bull. Anonymous
The company was set up to make a fantastic Linux distribution and other tools around it and get it out there and get people using it. That was the focus." That's now changing at Canonical as the emphasis is now shifting to generating revenues.
We're fine with moving priority to the new objective as soon as you've completed the former.;-)
Harvey's research involves the reverse engineering of OpenCV, which its creators describe as an open-source "library of programming functions for real-time computer vision." From that work, he developed an understanding of the algorithm
Sounds like a marketdroid's take at just saying: "He pulled off the truly amazing feat of downloading and looking at someone else's unobfuscated, well-documented open source code.";-)
The sad thing (not least for the graduate himself) is that there was little room left for El Reg et al. to report on the actual research after shrouding the obvious in such over-the-top unwarranted mystery and mumbo-jumbo.
As Alan M. Turing himself wrote in his 1948 National Physical Laboratory report on Intelligent Machinery (transcript from a law journal, of all places):
It is possible to produce the effect of a computing machine by writing down a set of rules of procedure and asking a man to carry them out. Such a combination of a man with written instructions will be called a ‘Paper Machine.’ A man provided with paper, pencil and rubber, and subject to strict discipline is in effect a universal machine.
the first expedition will be initiated by the submersion of the Leviathan
A page right out of the Illuminatus! trilogy. Eye optional?
So for once they let someone work for NASA who knows his conspiracy literature.;-)
Best tongue-in-cheek mission name ever since the obviously Doom-playing Russians calling theirs Phobos-Grunt.
Hagbard Celine: The sea is crueler than the land, sometimes.
Howard: The sea is cleaner than the land. There's no hate. Just death when and as needed.
The centre is responsible for tracking the electronic communications of terrorists
...which is hardly feasible without having access to everyone's communications, since those deserving of surveillance don't tend to identify themselves by stating e.g. "This is a terrorist communication:" at the start of everything they say.
GCHQ appeared to be entirely unaware whether or not the computers [...] contained [...] information on people posing an imminent security threat [...]
Quite a few others should also/rather want to know whether the computers contained information on people under an imminent security threat; information compiled by none less than the officials on a mission to protect them.
This begs the question if an eavesdropping agency losing 35 laptops in a year can really be called "responsible" for anything, or rather just irresponsible.
Just give way to your scientific curiosity... and quite literally at the speed of light, this will be the last "distance between peaks and valley, lining up perfectly" that you'll ever get to measure.;-)
All further computations shall be done by judges and attorneys, but you'll have lots of time to spare for writing great code afterwards.;-}
BTW, the safety instructions miss the warning:
Remove all items such as knives, forks and frying pans she might feel an impulse to stab or hit you in the head with..."
At least they didn't call it OrgaSIM ;-)
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Sagem Orga and Telefonica are promising: they've developed the SIMFi
If you don't fool with any of your customer's communications, that's cool. You haven't taken responsibility for the content, and you can't be held accountable for it. But the minute you start censoring people's messages, then you've picked up that ball and it's yours now. You have to take responsibility for it, 100%.
One might also say that other people's traffic is a can of worms best served closed.;-)
The moment the messenger allows itself even a sneak peek into it, let alone tries to "improve" it in whatever way, it'll find out that curiosity kills not just cats, but also ISPs at lawyerpoint.
...seems to be what saved this ISP in court.
For reasons other than network integrity, any surveillance or manipulation of users' data, such as port-blocking, DNS (or simply ToS) censorship, [cough]Phorm[/cough] or Deep Packet Inspection in general lead down a road to perdition, as courts will show little mercy with defendants who through their own actions have themselves conceded (even though inaccurately, as there are still e.g. VPNs) the feasibility of the plaintiffs' outlandish demands.
I expect that Buddy never did understand why when he stole my home work he still got D's, and I still got A's.
Trouble is that with a school that let him pass by stealing others' lunch&homework, he didn't get the F that would have been a better indication of his fair place in life.
With a D, someone might be inclined to assume he deserves a chance at wreaking even more havoc by applying his sociopathic skills in a workplace.
...and exactly the vicious kind of apologetic reasoning that Thurber derides in his tale of the rabbits being eaten allegedly because of provoking the wolves (and earthquakes) and having tried to escape.
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the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator (in SD and USB flavors) which works even on Amiga and accurately down to rendering old-school marvels such as playing music by drive noises.
Painstakingly hand-made in small numbers for now, if that's not a project to be spread from high-volume automated production lines by the likes of Seeed, then what is?
SCNR ;-)
We're fine with moving priority to the new objective as soon as you've completed the former. ;-)
Ubuntu 10.04 presumably is not it just yet.
Sounds like a marketdroid's take at just saying: "He pulled off the truly amazing feat of downloading and looking at someone else's unobfuscated, well-documented open source code." ;-)
The sad thing (not least for the graduate himself) is that there was little room left for El Reg et al. to report on the actual research after shrouding the obvious in such over-the-top unwarranted mystery and mumbo-jumbo.
...this design uses chairs thrown into the core to control the nuclear fire. ;-)
...the moment they show up for getting their training from the ones they are supposed to replace. ;-/
A page right out of the Illuminatus! trilogy. Eye optional? ;-)
So for once they let someone work for NASA who knows his conspiracy literature.
Best tongue-in-cheek mission name ever since the obviously Doom-playing Russians calling theirs Phobos-Grunt.
$there is "space" on even decades, "ocean" on odd?
Except for $there, the mantra seems to have been reiterated unchanged ever since Jules Verne or so.
Quite a few others should also/rather want to know whether the computers contained information on people under an imminent security threat; information compiled by none less than the officials on a mission to protect them.
This begs the question if an eavesdropping agency losing 35 laptops in a year can really be called "responsible" for anything, or rather just irresponsible.
Oblig Pi quote (Darren Aronofsky, 1998).
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Annotated-Alice/Lewis-Carroll/e/9780393048476/?itm=1&USRI=annotated+alice
..."Customers who bought this also bought"
All further computations shall be done by judges and attorneys, but you'll have lots of time to spare for writing great code afterwards.
BTW, the safety instructions miss the warning:
Remove all items such as knives, forks and frying pans she might feel an impulse to stab or hit you in the head with..."
Sagem Orga and Telefonica are promising: they've developed the SIMFi
SCNR...
In other words, the Duke Nukem Forever of Steampunk. ;-)
Not coming to a Weird Stuff Warehouse near you anytime soon.
It's little sibling (not a general purpose computer) is actually working since they did build it to 19th-century specifications: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1992-556.aspx
what we have become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again
Those were the days... <sigh> ;-)
Your mission, if you dare to accept it, is to solder a C64 back to life tonight.
If you don't fool with any of your customer's communications, that's cool. You haven't taken responsibility for the content, and you can't be held accountable for it. But the minute you start censoring people's messages, then you've picked up that ball and it's yours now. You have to take responsibility for it, 100%.
One might also say that other people's traffic is a can of worms best served closed. ;-)
The moment the messenger allows itself even a sneak peek into it, let alone tries to "improve" it in whatever way, it'll find out that curiosity kills not just cats, but also ISPs at lawyerpoint.
...to do business.
Last time the "greatest Superbowl tech ads of all time" came up, they were already missing the iconic Sun commercial as well:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=440612&cid=22285924
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/1-3/decocketal/FTads/FT031/FT31.htm
Still not on YouTube?
...seems to be what saved this ISP in court.
For reasons other than network integrity, any surveillance or manipulation of users' data, such as port-blocking, DNS (or simply ToS) censorship, [cough]Phorm[/cough] or Deep Packet Inspection in general lead down a road to perdition, as courts will show little mercy with defendants who through their own actions have themselves conceded (even though inaccurately, as there are still e.g. VPNs) the feasibility of the plaintiffs' outlandish demands.
some children are inherently weaker than others. [...] they often do get teased even by "normal" people.
I contest the notion that any educational institution may accept Darwinian peer pressure as purportedly "normal".
I expect that Buddy never did understand why when he stole my home work he still got D's, and I still got A's.
Trouble is that with a school that let him pass by stealing others' lunch&homework, he didn't get the F that would have been a better indication of his fair place in life.
With a D, someone might be inclined to assume he deserves a chance at wreaking even more havoc by applying his sociopathic skills in a workplace.
they can get inherently non-bullies to bully them
This is a statement of pure evil.
...and exactly the vicious kind of apologetic reasoning that Thurber derides in his tale of the rabbits being eaten allegedly because of provoking the wolves (and earthquakes) and having tried to escape.